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Pipelines, 44 rigs facilitate Powder River basin coal gas play

09/20/1999
Several dozen operators are forging ahead in the burgeoning Powder River basin coalbed methane play, one of the largest U.S. drilling programs in terms of number of wells.Pipelines designed expressly to carry gas from the coal seams are in advanced stages. Capacity to move coal gas out of the basin is to climb sharply during the rest of this year.Completion of the $80.5 million, 143 mile, 24 in. Medicine Bow lateral from Glenrock to Cheyenne in January 2000 should boost interstate transportation of Powder River CBM volumes. Its 260 MMcfd capacity could grow to 440 MMcfd by late 2001.June 1999 coal seam gas production from the Powder River basin averaged 153 MMcfd from 962 wells, Wyoming O...
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